Telephonograms to Glavtop. August 8, August 13, September 6, and September 27 and 30

THE KASHIRA POWER STATION

Construction of the Kashira power station began in 1919. According to the GOELRO Plan, by the end of 1924 it was proposed to complete the construction of a temporary station, which was to supply 42,000 kilowatts of electrical energy for supplying Moscow's largest factories and mills. The station's capacity upon full expansion was set at 420,000 kilowatts. The station is located on the bank of the Oka River, near the city of Kashira. Kashirastroi—the first station on Moscow-region coal and one of the first construction projects for implementing the "Plan for the Electrification of the RSFSR." At the beginning of 1922, the work of the first phase was completed, and Kashira entered into operation. Instead of the installed capacity of 42,000 kilowatts, it initially supplied Moscow with only 1,500–1,800 kilowatts.

From 1928 onwards, further expansion of the Kashira power station began. By the day of the tenth anniversary of the GOELRO Plan, December 20, 1930, the most powerful turbogenerator in the USSR, rated at 50,000 kilowatts, began operating at Kashira. By the end of the third year of the five-year plan, the total capacity of the Kashira power station was brought up to 200,000 kilowatts.

Lenin followed the progress of Kashirastroi's work with the greatest attention (see Lenin Miscellany, Vol. XX, pp. 244–245). The documents published below testify to his closest and most direct participation in resolving all questions of construction.

Some documents are printed from Lenin's manuscripts; the majority of documents, however, are printed from copies made on a typewriter, whereby all these documents apparently were drafted preliminarily by the administration of Kashirastroi and subsequently edited by Lenin. Some of them bear Lenin's own signature.

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## TELEPHONOGRAMS TO GLAVTOP

I*

To Glavtop.

[August 8, 1921]

I propose that within the course of three days you place at the disposal of the Podolsk factory 1,000 puds of foundry coke for fulfilling the orders of Kashirastroi. Report on completion. [8397]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

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II**

To Glavtop.

August 13, 1921

It is proposed to you [to] deliver within a week's time to the Myshegsk iron-casting factory one thousand puds of coke for urgent castings for Kashirastroi. [932]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Lenin).

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III*

To Glavtop.

[September 6, 1921]

I propose to take all measures toward supplying the Kashira station with coal in sufficient quantity by October 15 of this year.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

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IV**

To Glavtop.

[September 27, 1921]

I propose that you urgently supply the Kashira construction project with coke in the quantity of 1,000 puds.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

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V***

To Glavtop, Comrade Smilga.¹

Copy: To the Metal Department of the VSNKh, Comrade Chernov.²

[September 30, 1921]

I propose that you urgently supply the Kolomna factory with coke for fulfilling urgent orders for Kashirastroi.

Report on completion by telegraph. [930]

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

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¹ I. T. Smilga—head of the Chief Administration for Fuel and Deputy Chairman of the VSNKh.

² A. S. Chernov-Grechnev—Chairman of "Gomza."

* Printed from a typewritten copy. Editor's note.

** Printed from a typewritten copy; signature in Lenin's own hand. Editor's note.

*** Printed from a typewritten copy. The signature and the words "Report on completion by telegraph" are written in Lenin's hand. Editor's note.